Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.